If people would just look at the paintings, I don't think they would have any trouble enjoying them. It's like looking at a bed of flowers, you don't tear your hair out over what it means. Jackson Pollock More Quotes by Jackson Pollock More Quotes From Jackson Pollock As to what I would like to be, it is difficult to say. An artist of some kind. If nothing else I shall always study the Arts. Jackson Pollock study ambition art I don't use the accident - 'cause I deny the accident Jackson Pollock deny expressionism use My opinion is that new needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements. Jackson Pollock technique artist mean Modern art to me is nothing more than the expression of contemporary aims of the age we’re living in. All cultures have had means and techniques of expressing their immediate aims – the Chinese, the Renaissance, all cultures. The thing that interests me is that today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source, they work from within. Jackson Pollock expression mean art I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc. Jackson Pollock tools usual artist A method of painting is a natural growth out of a need. I want to express my feelings rather than illustrate them. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement. Jackson Pollock growth feelings mean Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within. Jackson Pollock modern source different I am doubtful of any talent, so whatever I choose to be, will be accomplished only by long study and work Jackson Pollock talent study long On the floor I am more at ease. Jackson Pollock ease The process is only a means to an end-creating the painting I want. It doesn't mean anything itself. It's only a way of creating a result. Jackson Pollock creating want mean Painting is a state of being. Jackson Pollock painting states I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting. Jackson Pollock canvas painting When I am painting I have a general notion as to what I am about. I can control the flow of paint: there is no accident. Jackson Pollock notion painting flow New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture. Jackson Pollock airplane artist mean I do not paint nature. I am nature. Jackson Pollock paint Bums are the well-to-do of this day. They didn't have as far to fall. Jackson Pollock painting wells fall The idea of an isolated American painting , so popular in this country during the thirties, seems absurd to me, just as the idea of a purely American mathematics or physics would seem absurd... And in another sense, the problem doesn't exist at all; or, if it did, would solve itself: An American is an American and his painting would naturally be qualified by the fact, whether he wills or not. But the basic problems of contemporary painting are independent of any one country. Jackson Pollock independent country ideas
